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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1886
Page
2
The Health Officer reports a city death rate of 12.19 per 1000 for whites and 122.94 for colored residents, with mortality among colored children at 601 per 1000. The figures, noted by the Savannah Health Office, raise concerns nationwide.
A recent English traveler notes the Saturday half holiday idea is in practical operation in many eastern towns and cities, especially among wholesalers. He says America has too few holidays and people work themselves to early graves, a truth that could be eased if the half holiday became general.
New York correspondent reports ex President Arthur waning in health as malaria and indigestion hinder him. His weight dropped from 228 pounds at leaving the White House to at least 165 pounds after returning to New York, with past overindulgence cited as a contributing factor.
The city marks its 200th anniversary with a full week of events in July. Opening services occur the Sunday before July 22 in the three oldest denominations the Dutch Reformed Presbyterian and Episcopal. Numerous processions and brass band music fill the air all week.
Bradstreet’s states the national trade and industry feel less impact from Wall Street fluctuations now. During the war and immediate postwar years, bulls and bears caused wide anxiety and many distant investors suffered losses by basing ventures on daily speculative reports.
A London dispatch reports British investors in American land alarmed by congressional moves to curb alien ownership. It notes Congress can only limit land disposal in territories, not existing holdings, and urges limiting sales to actual settlers. The piece argues American monopolists are slightly less objectionable than English ones.
Dr Hodges at the Massachusetts Medical Society cautions that advances in medicine and sanitation are offset by social excitements raising nervous strain. He notes excessive intensity in youths lives and changes that worsen mental health, with early signs of nervous decline among many cases observed by the intelligent observer.
The Senate debated a motion to bar members from railroad employment aided by the U S, and considered repealing desert land limits while voting down amendments. A bill granting railroad right of way through Montana Indian lands passed, and tariff reform clashes with party leaders continued amid lengthy speeches by Randall Morrison and others. Evarts denounced the land grant counsel bill, Edmonds attacked Beck, and vetoes cut pensions like Alfred Denney’s while Van Wyck proposed jurisdiction- preserving provisos on Union Pacific routes.
Congress considered bills on a Southern district judge salary fix at five thousand dollars a year and a nepotism ban. The Senate passed the amended judge bill and the repeal of preemption and timber culture laws. A conference on disputed votes was ordered. Senate debated Porter’s army restoration and bribery inquiries. House read veto messages and approved a pension bill postponement. Conference reports followed on agricultural and pension measures.
An essay on keeping decency in speech and conduct. It urges regulating pleasure with awareness of finances, valuing healthful sleep, and prioritizing grandmothers over philosophers. It extols simple joys, warns against overthinking, and celebrates natural expressions of life.
Special telegraph from June 25 describes Gall the Sioux chief giving a detailed account of the Little Big Horn fight. He and Crow scout Curley present as Gall asserts Custer and his men were destroyed after Reno’s defeat, with heavy Indian casualties and a brutal hand-to-hand fighting scene.
The House approved a Senate bill granting relief to John Porter by 30 to 17 votes with Republicans Cameron, Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Ell, and Sewall supporting. Absent Sabin and Ford would have favored. Debates touched on treatment of veterans and a proposed retired-list expansion for wounded volunteers. The act lets the president appoint Porter as colonel with his prior rank, but retirement pay and allowances are withheld.
At Omaha the second Ballard trial for Henry Verperten's murder ended with a murder verdict after a prior first degree conviction and death sentence. The supreme court granted a new trial. In Syracuse Rev John E B O Sullivan was found guilty of criminal assault and sentenced to eleven years. In Hudson Wis City Treasurer Richardson died after a long illness. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland plans to move to Chicago to edit Literary Life.
A Knights of Labor committee led by Ralph Beaumont and James Conobelt sent a letter to Speakerand copies to Randell and Morrison urging passage of bills tied to timber culture pre emptions and land acts. They claim 500000 signatures soon and frame demands as core to the 1884 Chicago platform, urging action from the House while noting treasury surplus and currency reform.
The statistics bureau reports a broad drop in merchandise exports for eleven months ending May, totaling 623,431,670 with a 70,270,089 fall from the prior year, while foreign merchandise imports rose by about 33 million. The export deficit versus the average and the gold movements show net losses, with total merchant and bullion exports near 685.65 million and imports around 618.19 million for the period.
Washington Special reports Sidney New South Wales describes inhabitants of an island in the South Pacific confining their girls in cages from age three to arrange marriages. Houses are fenced with reed mazes and girls may leave only on washing days, a system said to yield healthy yet restricted girls.
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